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| author | Kirill A. Shutemov | 2017-11-27 04:21:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2017-11-27 21:26:29 +0100 |
| commit | a8f97366452ed491d13cf1e44241bc0b5740b1f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 088b53c38a80b46fb6d46c49dc521dfa54e3a87b /mm/khugepaged.c | |
| parent | Linux 4.15-rc1 (diff) | |
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mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()
Currently, we unconditionally make page table dirty in touch_pmd().
It may result in false-positive can_follow_write_pmd().
We may avoid the situation, if we would only make the page table entry
dirty if caller asks for write access -- FOLL_WRITE.
The patch also changes touch_pud() in the same way.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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